StartupGrind

Startup Grind is a global startup community designed to educate, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs. It is powered by Google for Entrepreneurs. We host monthly events in 250 cities and 100 countries featuring successful local founders, innovators, educators and investors who share personal stories and lessons learned on the road to building great companies.

Startup Grind is a connected online and offline network of vibrant startup communities to help fuel innovation, economic growth and prosperity at the local level. While Startup Grind was founded in Palo Alto, California, our extended network of Startup Grind chapters are located around the world. Start a Chapter in your city or school!

Our Values

We believe in making friends, not contacts. We believe in giving, not taking. We believe in helping others before helping yourself. We are truly passionate about helping founders, entrepreneurs and startups succeed. We intend to make their startup journey less lonely, more connected and more memorable.

In my humble opinion, avoiding mistakes is impossible. You start from the beginning and fumble around, and as long the mistakes are not catastrophic, you are in good shape. Moreover, attempting to avoid every mistake makes a person less likely to take bigger risks, and nothing ventured nothing gained, the bigger the risk the higher the outcome.

I think it is about avoiding the catastrophic mistakes that are avoidable. Often startup founders don't learn from the avoidable mistakes of others because they don't educate themselves enough. Worse than that they try to emulate entrepreneur idols, Jobs and Zuckerburg, instead of taking the advice of other entrepreneurs who have followed the more likely path then those two.

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1. Avoid becoming Arnold Schwarzenegger in one day. Most startups' want to become the next Amazon or Facebook and pack in all their features in site. Did you know the "famous" like button, was invented 5 years after FB was launched ? " However, one should begin with a single idea, deploy it, learn from it and then expand. Yes, it is quite a pressure box to see other startup spring up in a matter of weeks, and raise million dollar funding, but attempting to be all end all will mostly let you down. Amazon and Flipkart start with selling books and did so many year before branching.

2. Don't ignore Technology - Many a time start up tend to outsource technology for saving time and due lack of technical prowess. This is leads to unnecessary delay and miscommunication between your idea in mind and the final product. Ideally, you should learn technology.

3. Choosing the right market - This is a rejoinder to "Not dreaming big enough". I thinking the point should be to make choose a market which is big and growing. Eg. India is great place to start. With over 350 million "Middleclass" and growing the market is so huge that any opportunity even shabbily executed idea will work today. China is another great example. African nations are also great place to land an idea. You may incubate the idea anywhere but definitely test it in other countries too. And with technology is it possible too.

4. Going Solo or Not - Definitely given a choice one should go solo, but don't jam up with bad company just for the sake of it. Its definitely better to go solo than to

My name is Sandeep Krishnan and I run a startup named www.raisejoy.com. RaiseJoy extrinsically is fundraising platform but under the hood its an incubator for connecting Skill development & Corporates. To know more, write to me at https://twitter.com/IamSKrishnan.